The accountability court in Islamabad said Imran made "provocative political statements" that threatened judicial decorum and obstructed the dispensation of justice. The former Pakistan PM had made several strong claims about rigging in claims and the treatment of his jailed wife.
The verdict will determine once and for all the controversy around the period of disqualification under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution and the Elections Act 2017.
Qureshi was arrested earlier this month in the probe against the cipher, which Imran Khan's party claims was used by the US to orchestrate his deposition from office last year.
A trial court in Islamabad convicted and sentenced the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman to three years in prison on August 5.
In wake of the May 9 violence following Imran Khan's arrest, more than 10,000 workers of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party were arrested by the police.
Sharif was disqualified in 2017 by a five-member bench of the apex court but he couldn't file an appeal as there was no law to challenge the judgment of the top judiciary.
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The Cabinet Division was told to share the required information within 10 working days and also upload it on the official website. But the Cabinet Division challenged the PIC order in the Islamabad High Court after the then Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government said that the disclosure of any information may jeopardize ties with some countries.
Lashkar-e-Taiba orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 160 people.
The United States has expressed concerns over the release of British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three aides by a Pakistan court in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
A Pakistani court has issued a notice to Prime Minister Imran Khan in a defamation case filed by PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif seeking early hearing of his suit against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, pending for three years.
The US on Friday criticised a Pakistani court for overturning the death sentence of British-born top al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted in the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack, terming the verdict an "affront" to victims of terrorism everywhere.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday accepted a plea of Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa chief (JuD), Hafiz Saeed, to club all six terror financing cases against him and his aides, and announce the verdict on completion of the trial.
Huma was 14 when she was abducted in October last year and forced to marry her abductor Abdul Jabbar after being converted to Islam, according to her parents Younis and Nagheena Masih.
The court accepted the request of Saeed's counsel and adjourned the hearing till Tuesday. In the last hearing on Friday, a questionnaire was handed over to Saeed in the ATC regarding charges of terror financing against him.
The prosecution which was to present witnesses against Saeed, who is detained at the Kot Lakhpat jail here, and others failed to bring them to the court as the lawyers have been on a strike for the last three days protesting against the arrest of their colleagues in a case of hooliganism at a hospital in Lahore.
Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's special adviser Irfan Siddiqui was granted bail on Sunday, a day after a court sent him to jail on a 14-day judicial remand for violating tenancy laws.
The hearing in a high treason case against Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has been adjourned for a month by a special court after the government failed to appoint a defence counsel to represent Pakistan's former military dictator, according to a media report on Wednesday.
The Anti-Terrorism Court found the trio guilty in three separate cases on Friday after funds collected for the militant outfit were recovered from them.
The former president's lawyer Salman Safdar, in an application on behalf of Musharraf, stated that despite strong willingness and eagerness to return to Pakistan, the life-threatening ailments and medical complications have forced him not to appear before the special court.
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